No syndicate supplying drugs to students in Sarawak

KUCHING: Assistant Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Datuk Francis Harden Hollis has clarified that no syndicate was supplying drugs for free to students in Sarawak. He said that a news report entitled ‘Menteri Muda Sarawak dedah sindiket edar dadah percuma untuk pelajar” (Sarawak Assistant Minister exposes drug syndicate distributing drugs […]

Close watch on smuggling of immigrants syndicates

KUCHING: The General Operations Force (GOF) Sarawak Brigade is tracking down undocumented immigrant (Pati) smuggling syndicates orchestrated by locals. GOF Sarawak Brigade Commander SAC Mancha Ata said they believed that the entries of Pati from Kalimantan, Indonesia into Sarawak through jalan tikus (illegal routes) and jalan gajah(big roads) along the border were at the ‘invitation’ […]

Three ‘Ah Long’ suspects nabbed

KUCHING: Police crippled an illegal money-lending syndicate or ‘Ah Long’ in an operation codenamed ‘Op Vulture’ last Tuesday. Kuching district deputy police chief Supt Merbin Lisa said three suspects, aged 25, 26 and 35, were arrested and 225 money- lending advertisement posters of various sizes were also seized. “The police also received 25 reports made […]

Human trafficking syndicate crippled, 11 agents nabbed

KUANTAN: Pahang police have crippled a human trafficking syndicate with the arrest of 11 men ― including a Burmese, who were believed to be syndicate agents ― in a raid at three districts within the state. Pahang police chief Datuk Abd Jalil Hassan said the suspects, comprising 10 local men and one foreigner, aged between […]